As per the requirements of the contract between Black Sea Terminal LLC (BST) and Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Georgia, Kulevi Oil Terminal regularly conducts environmental monitoring. The process of environmental monitoring is described in the monitoring scheme, which has been approved by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Georgia.

According to the current monitoring scheme, BSTmust conduct integrated environmental monitoring on a quarterly basis. This includes:

Soil sampling pertaining to hydrocarbon contentinside the terminal

Water sampling, including Tsiva River and the Port channel, against various pollutants

Noise monitoring at terminal in areas with high noise levels

Air quality monitoring in compliance with local and international standards

Additional environmental monitoring includes:

Product turnover

Fuel consumption

Pumps and generator running hours

Raw material consumption

Energy consumption

Water consumption

Dredging amounts

Waste production monitoring

Incident monitoring

Training monitoring

Bathymetry data

Shoreline and topography

Weather data

Social data

Information collected from all BST departments and the quarterly monitoring, is the basisfor the monthly environmental and annual Environmental Monitoring Report that is sent to the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Georgia every year.